Vol. 78/No. 42 November 24, 2014
November 24, 1989
Washington, D.C. — Supporters of a woman’s right to choose abortion numbering in the hundreds of thousands filled streets and rally sites across the United States on November 12. In a simultaneous show of force, the prochoice demonstrators held more than 1,000 actions in 150 cities, from Kennebunkport, Maine, to Los Angeles in defense of abortion rights.Buses from all over the eastern and Midwestern parts of the country began rolling into Washington, D.C., at dawn — along with prochoice supporters in car caravans, trains and planes — for what was the largest action of the day. By noon some 150,000 protesters filled the lawn facing the Lincoln Memorial and surrounded the Reflecting Pool.
“Today is historic,” said National Organization for Women President Molly Yard, as she welcomed the protesters. “It marks for all of us — no turning back.”
November 23, 1964
Pedro Albizu Campos, the ailing 73-year-old Puerto Rican nationalist leader who has been in prison since 1950, was pardoned Nov. 15 by Puerto Rican Governor Luis Munoz Marin.Albizu was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment after a revolt broke out in Puerto Rico and after world attention was focused on an assassination attempt against President Truman on Nov. 1, 1950.
The Nationalist Party, which Albizu led, was the principal organization for Puerto Rican independence at the time. It issued a statement that the revolt was an action of self-defense against a Washington move to eliminate the Nationalist Party leaders.
After the revolt was crushed, an estimated 1,000 to 2,500 Puerto Ricans were arrested. Though most were released, many were given long jail terms.
November 24, 1939
CAIRO, Ill., Nov. 17 — Cairo, “the town that has never been flooded,” is up to its neck in a strike wave involving the major industrial plants.More than two hundred business men have been deputized as special police officers to break the strike movement. Attempts to foment race riots against the strikers, a majority of whom are Negroes, are constantly made.
But where the vigilante bosses were successful in smashing the strike of unemployed workers three years ago and framing their leader, Eddie Parker, they have been unable to make a dent in the present strike ranks.
The strike movement began with the walkout of the workers at the Roberts Cotton Seed Products Co. With the exception of three or four, this 100 percent organized AFL Federal Local is composed of Negro workers.
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